What is the difference between persistent volume (PV) and persistent volume claim (PVC) in simple terms?

Question

What is the difference between persistent volume (PV) and persistent volume claim (PVC) in Kubernetes/ Openshift by referring to documentation?

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Answer 1

PersistentVolume(PV) and PersistentVolumeClaim(PVC) are the resources APIs provided by the Kubernetes. PV is a piece of storage which supposed to preallocated by an admin. And PVC is a request for a piece of storage by a user.